NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1878. 97 



There are, of course, no Marsliamian types of any of these 

 insects. 



Whether the proposed change of name in Thomson's 

 rnesoleius is to be adopted on the evidence adduced, is 

 another matter. 



20. Elater POMONyE, Gr. R. Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc, 



V. (n. s.), p. 90 ; Candeze, Mon. Elat., ii, p. 455 ; 



E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 268 ; Seidlitz, 



Fauna Baltica, p. 119. 

 ? Stephens, Man. Brit. Coh, p. 179. 

 prceustus, Schiodte, 7iec Fab. 

 pomoriim, Thomson, Opusc. Ent., fasc. iv, p. 388, nee 



(Geoffr.) Germ. 



I have briefly pointed out the characteristics of this some- 

 what rare and very distinct species, found by the late Charles 

 Turner " in the New Forest," and more recently dug by 

 Mr. J. Ray Hardy out of birch at Sherwood Forest ; and 

 noted discrepancies between Stephens's description and that 

 of Waterhouse antl Candeze. According to Seidlitz, this is 

 almost the commonest of the genus in Livonia. 



21. Ptinus testaceus, Olivier, Entom., Col., ix, p. 8 ; 



De Boieldieu, Mon. des Ptiniores, Ann. Soc. Ent. 



France, 3me ser., iv, p. 654 ; Wollaston, Cat. Mad. 



Col., p. 89, Cat. Can. Col., p. 239, Col. Atlant., 



p. 213 ; D. Sharp, Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 268. 

 hirtellus, Sturm, Deutschl, Fauna, Ins., xii, p. 80. 

 advena, Wollaston, Insecta Maderensia, p. 261. 

 Ptinus 5 sp. ? Waterhouse, Cat. Brit. Col., p. 58 ; 



E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., iii, p. 233. 



1874. H 



